Most of the zama zamas are poorly equipped, many without the slightest bit of training. Death waits around every corner.

South African police have been in a stand off outside an abandoned gold mine with hundreds of illegal miners who are holding out underground. The situation is getting desperate. In South Africa, ...

In the wake of a methane gas explosion that claimed the lives of 31 people at a decommissioned mining shaft near Welkom in South Africa, a zama zama from Lesotho explains the desperation that drove ...